Thursday, February 28, 2013

Celebrity Toons: Scooby-Doo meets Laurel & Hardy (1972)

Here's another season 1 gem from The New Scooby-Doo Movies. The Mystery Inc. crew travels to Vermont for some skiing, and meet up with the legendary comedians Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy (voiced by Jim MacGeorge & Chuck McCann, respectively). In turn, they have to deal with "The Ghost of Bigfoot".

Now, come to think of it, wouldn't Bigfoot be way off the beaten path in Vermont? Of course. Bigfoot allegedly was based in the Pacific Northwest, not in New England, so that should tell you something about the predictable hijinks.......

Chuck McCann would later portray an Oliver Hardy impersonator as a villain on the primetime drama, Matt Houston, and has been vastly underrated as an actor over the course of his storied career.

Yes, there was a L & H series of shorts from H-B in the mid-60's. H-B used the characters one more time probably to retain the license just a wee bit longer. I did a review on the series a while back. Look for it under "celebrity toons".

Blame the writers for the location screw-up, if you must, but I'd never heard of Mackinac, period.